---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 433.17"
title: "40"
number: "433.17"
heading: "Pretreatment standards for new sources (PSNS)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/433.17"
---

# §433.17. Pretreatment standards for new sources (PSNS).

- (a) Except as provided in [40 CFR 403.7](/cfr/40/403.7.md), any new source subject to this subpart that introduces pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works must comply with [40 CFR part 403](/cfr/40/part403.md) and achieve the following pretreatment standards for new sources (PSNS):
- (b) Alternatively, for industrial facilities with cyanide treatment, and upon agreement between a source subject to these limits and the pollution control authority, the following amenable cyanide limit may apply in place of the total cyanide limit specified in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section:
- (c) No user subject to the provisions of this subpart shall augment the use of process wastewater or otherwise dilute the wastewater as a partial or total substitute for adequate treatment to achieve compliance with this limitation.
- (d) An existing source submitting a certification in lieu of monitoring pursuant to § [433.12 (a)](/cfr/40/433.12.md?p=a) and [(b)](/cfr/40/433.12.md?p=b) of this regulation must implement the toxic organic management plan approved by the control authority.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 32485, July 15, 1983; 48 FR 43682, Sept. 26, 1983]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 301, 304(b), (c), (e), and (g), 306(b) and (c), 307(b) and (c), 308 and 501 of the Clean Water Act (the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1971, as amended by the Clean Water Act of 1977) (the “Act”); 33 U.S.C. 1311, 1314(b) (c), (e), and (g), 1316(b) and (c), 1317(b) and (c), 1318 and 1361; 86 Stat. 816, Pub. L. 92-500; 91 Stat. 1567, Pub. L. 95-217.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 32485, July 15, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 32485, July 15, 1983; 48 FR 43682, Sept. 26, 1983]